and identified as having a substanceabuse need (either a probable or highly probably need). Consequently, these are the offenders who were in need of substanceabusetreatment ... Returned SubstanceAbuseTreatment Program Involvement In-Prison SAP Participants/ Had SubstanceAbuse Need No Aftercare Some Aftercare Completed Aftercare No In-Prison SAP Participation/ Had SubstanceAbuse Need Some Aftercare Completed Aftercare Did ... 640 (approximately 72 percent) were identified as having a substanceabuse need. Figure 24

may be found in Appendix F. Table 25. Recidivism Rates by SubstanceAbuseTreatment Program Involvement29 First Releases Number Returned Re‐Releases Number Returned Total Number Returned SubstanceAbuseTreatment Program Involvement In-Prison

Percent Identified No Positive Tests (n=1, 442) 1+ Positive Tests (n=516) Figure 9: Percentage of cases identified as having a substanceabusetreatment need on parole by whether or not they had a positive drug test during parole. ... a substanceabuse problem. Drug testing was not the only way of identifying these problems ...substanceabuse services despite having no positive drug tests. These data suggest

As Figures L-11 – L-14 indicate, California’s offenders releasing to parole have high needs for education, vocational, and substanceabusetreatment programming. It ... being in a formal alcohol or drug treatment program (Figure L-14). We will revisit

abuse programs (SAPs) but did not attend community-based substanceabusetreatment ... not attend community-based substanceabusetreatment (39.8 percent after one year and 55 ... and community-based substanceabusetreatment programs have markedly lower rates of return